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TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING Sunday, 20 November 2005 7:00 p.m. Opening Ceremony
Monday, 21 November 2005 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Session I
Panel 1 Democracy, Globalization, and the State in Africa
The Geography of Civil Wars in Contemporary Africa
Children at War: International and Domestic Law Implications
A Political Economy of Conflicts in ECOWAS States
Mass Media and their Role in Conflicts in Africa
Effects of War on Environment in Africa chair: Peter A. Dumbuya, Fort Valley State University
Panel 2 Nation-Building in the Middle East
Nationalism and Independence in the South Caucasus: Georgia, Armenia, and
Azerbaijan
The Uniqueness and the Triumph of Bourguibism
On the Road to Recovery: Lebanon in the 21st Century chair: Abdul Karim Bangura, American University
Panel 3 Population Transfers and Readjustments in the Third World
Global Migration and Human Diaspora: The Survey Course
Individual Demobilization and Reintegration Process in Colombia
Integracion Regional y Migracion en America Central
Scam Artists in a Globalizing Age chair: Lily Mendoza, University of Denver 9:45 am. - 11:15 a.m. Session II
Panel 1 World Dialogue: Africa
Commissioning Africa for Globalization: Blair's Project for the World's Poor
NEPAD and Africa's Leaky Begging Bowl
Rethinking Pan-Africanism in the Search for Social Progress
Panel 2 Globalization and Neoliberalism in South America
Democratization and Neoliberalism Ecuadorian Style
Impact of Economic Liberalization on the Brazilian Higher Education Sector
The Chilean Success: Pinochet, the Chicago Boys, and Privatization
Neoliberalism in Brazil chair: William E. Berry, University of Illinois
Panel 3 Globalization Revisited: New Approaches and Interpretations
The Ideas that Conquered the World: Globalization and Neoliberalism as
Refurbished Orientalism
Globalized Hip-Hop, Privatized Bomb Drops, and Third World Pockets of Scream:
The Growing Struggle to Represent
Internationalism and Liberation: Dreams and the Impossible
International Negotiations of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent of Indigenous
communities: Implications for the Mobility of Capital and Those who Contest the
Neoliberal Economic Paradigm chair: Bhim Sandhu, West Chester University
Panel 4
Issues and Events in the Islands of Asia and the South Pacific
Savage Acts:
U.S.-Philippine Relations, National Memory, and the Politics of
Representation
Politics of Tsunami
Relief Management
The Lone Eagle in the
Philippines: Mixing Environmentalism and Post-Colonialism
Health Status, Health
Perceptions, and Health Risk Among Non-Communicable Disease Outpatients in
three Developing Pacific Island Nations
11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Coffee Break 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Session III
Panel 1 Africa's
Economic, Political, and Social Development in the 21st Century
From the Past to the
Present in Africa: prospects for Development in the 21 Century
Vectors of
Inequality: State, Neo-Liberal Institutionalism and Public Policy in Africa
Economic Freedom and
Development in Africa
Police-Citizen
Adversarial Relations and its Impact on Crime Control in Africa: Case of
Nigeria
chair: E. Ike Udogu, Appalachian State University
Panel 2
Islam in the Third World
The Israeli Wall in
Palestine: an Islamic Perspective
Islamic Peace Through
the Power Law: Examples from the Third World
A Qualitative and
Quantitative Test of the Islamic Economic Doctrine as a Viable Development
Model for Muslim Societies
chair: Michael B. Bishku, Augusta State University
Panel 3
Globalization and Neoliberalism in Central America and the Caribbean
Mass Media and the
Globalization of Racial Prejudice: Representations of Africa and Blackness
in Newspapers in the Dominican Republic
The Globalization and
the Local: Interrogating and Understanding the Consequences of Communal Lands and
the Mediation of Conflicts in the Indigenous and Ethnic Territories of the
South Atlantic Autonomous Region of Nicaragua
La Marcha de Puerto
Rico: Conflicto, Desarrollo, Neoliberalismo, y Resistencia Nacional
Globalization and
Neoliberal Policies on Mayan Identity in Guatemala
chair: Virginia W. Leonard, Western Illinois University
Panel 4
Katrina Revisited: Evaluations with a Perspective from the Third World
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Lunch Break 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Session IV
Panel 1
Latino Literature in the United States
Writing Dominican
History in the United States
The Third World in
the First: Puerto Rican Literature in the United States
Rogues in Harlem:
Ernesto Quinonez's
Chicano Narrative
chair: Michael R. Hall, Armstrong Atlantic State University
Panel 2
Conflict, Crisis, and Terrorism: Possible Solutions?
Soft Power Strategies
to Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism and
Democracy: Relevance and Implications in Africa
Ariel Sharon and
Operation Peace for Galilee
The Wrong Rights?
Conflicting Demands in the Israeli-Palestinian and Northern Ireland
Conflicts
chair: Daniel C. Turack, Capital University Law School
Panel 3
Africa in Historical Perspective
The Congo War in
Historical Perspective
Ethiopia's
Failed Search for an Ally: Daba Birrou's
Mission to japan During the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-1936
Regional
Organizations and the Democratic Entitlement Doctrine: The OAS and the
African Union
United Nations Peace
Operations in Africa: A Cookie-Cutter Approach
chair: Andrew E. Luma, Palm Beach Community College 5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. JTWS Editorial Meeting Tuesday, 22 November 2005 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Session I
Panel 1
Pan-Africanism: Carribean Connections I (Political and Economic Connections)
Political and
Governmental Connections
International
Organizational Connections
Legal Connections
Economic Connections
chair: Joseph Takougang, University of Cincinnati
Panel 2
Issues in African Studies
Reparations for
Africa and its Diaspora: A Just Compensation
AIDS and Human Rights
in Africa
Africa's
Straightjacket Independence: Is Liberal Democracy the Solution?
Globalization,
Corruption, and Development in Africa
chair: Opportune Zongo, Bowling Green State University
Panel 3
Globalization and Social Change in Transformation
One's
Sense of Prestige and Social Development, with a Particular Reference to the
Developing Counties
Democratizing
Globalization: the Role of Global Civil Society
De-centering the
Global Discourse on Africa: Cybertech and the Politics of Virtual Class
Spaces
Abimbola Soriyan, Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria)
Elucidating the
Distinction Between Leo-Liberalism, Neo-Liberalism, and Neo-Conservativism
and Taking Stock of Revolutionary Political and Economic Theory
chair: Andrew F. Clark, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Panel 4
Education and Development in the Dominican Republic
Combating the Worst
Forms of Child Labor in the Dominican Republic Through Education
Quantum Learning: a
Revolutionary Method for Revitalizing Classrooms and Solving the Problems of
Dropout and Repetition
Study Abroad and
Social Work: Education and Development as a Voluntary Experience
chair: Michael R. Hall, Armstrong Atlantic State University 9:45 am. - 11:15 a.m. Session II
Panel 1
Pan-Africanism: Caribbean Connections II (Sociological and Literary
Connections)
Language and
Linguistic Connections
Intellectual and
Academic Connections
Literary Connections
Sierra Leone Krio and
Jamaican Patois Connections
chair: Ivor Agyeman-Duah, Embassy of Ghana
Panel 2
Abraham Lincoln's
Legacy in Central America
Rivera, Kahlo, and
Trotsky: The Lincoln Connection
Jose Marti, Fulgencio
Batista, and Fidel Castro: The Three Lincolnators
The Lincoln Legacy in
the Dominican Republic
Lincoln's
Legacy in Haiti
chair: Patricia Moral, Lincoln College (Argentina)
Panel 3
B
Education and Development in Africa I
Ports of Embarkation
and Disembarkation: the Atlantic Slave Trade and Tourism in West Africa and
the Caribbean
Changing the Course:
Equity and Policy shift in Higher Education Financing in Kenya
Women and Education
in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Move Towards Empowerment
The Muse of
Contemporary Africa: Balancing Political and Reality Principles
chair: Kelly Harris, Johnson C. Smith University 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Coffee Break 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Session III
Panel 1
B
Pan-Africanism: Carribean Connections III (Cultural Connections)
Religious and
Spiritual Connections
Musical Connections
Food and Culinary
Connections
Behind Du Bois's
Veil is Franz Fanon's
Muscle on a Herculoidian Trip
chair: Adjai Robinson, Delaware State University
Panel 2
B
Latin America in Historical Perspective
The Haitian
Revolution and its Impact
The Legacy of U.S.
Occupation of Cuba and the Philippines during the McKinley Administration
The Revolutionary
Frontier: The Sierra Maestra, the Guajiros, and the Cuban Revolution
chair: Jose da Cruz, Armstrong Atlantic State University
Panel 3
B
Sierra Leone and Liberia: Lessons Learned and Lessons to be Learned
Conflict, Refugees,
and Economic Growth: Lessons from Developing Countries
The Crisis of
Globalization and Democratization in Post-War African Societies: Case Study
of the March to Democracy and Peace in Sierra Leone
Understanding and
Fighting Corruption in Sierra Leone: A Metaphorical Linguistic Approach
Failure of the
Post-1997 Peace-Building in Liberia: Lessons Learned and Challenges for
Building Sustainable Peace
chair: Assefaw Bariagaber, Seton Hall University
Panel 4
B
Zimbabwe and Portuguese-Speaking African in Perspective
Zimbabwe: Likelihood
of a Change in the Human Rights Record under the Mugabe Government
Social Protection in
Africa: Conditions and Trends in the Portuguese-Speaking Countries
The Social and
Political Impact of Transnational Networks in Angola
chair: Mueni Wa Muiu, Winston-Salem State University 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Lunch Break 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Executive Council Meeting 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Session IV
Panel 1
B
Nagging Paradoxes of Globalization: Examples from the Developing World
The Politics of
United Nations Reform
The Peace Corps in
Africa
Attitudes Toward the
Military and Military Rule in Nigeria
Globalization,
Democracy, and Development: The Politics of Implementing the Structural
Adjustment Program in Nigeria.
chair: James T. Gire, Virginia Military Institute
Panel 2
B
Globalization and Neo-Liberalism in Asia
Economic Reform and
Educational Reform: Problems of Change in Vietnam
Economic Globalization
and Chinese Cultural Nationalism
Value Changes Between
Generations in China: A Study in Shanghai
Dynamics of India's
Economic Reform: Diagnosis and Prognosis
chair: Peng Deng, High Point University
Panel 3
B
Education and Development in Africa II
The Use of Theater as a
Multiethnic Model for Cultural Competence in Social Work Practice
Municipality-Community
Partnerships for Services and Livelihoods in South Africa: Community Based
Alternatives to PPPs
Globalization and
Senegambia: Ramifications, Implications, and New Directions
Globalization and
Financial Integration in Africa: Challenges and Prospects
chair: Edward R. McMahon, University of Vermont 5:15 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. African Studies and Research Forum Meeting 7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. ATWS Banquet Dinner and Beverages served in the Salon Alcazar Guest Speaker: Matias Bosch Director of the Fundacion Juan Bosch
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